Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:00:01 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: "Maintainer of FreeBSD Mailman" <mandree@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Greg Veldman <freebsd@gregv.net>, Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> Subject: Re: mail/mailman v3? Message-ID: <202004291500.03TF01F4049616@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:43:36 -0400." <20200429024336.GT1068@aurora.gregv.net>
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Greg Veldman wrote ports@: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 01:02:14PM -0700, Chris wrote: > > It also wouldn't be that difficult to simply modify mailman(2) > > to adopt the py3.x language changes. > > To simply make it work, perhaps not. To make it work well and > be reliable... might be more difficult than you think. A large > chunk of what a mail handler of any variety does is text > processing, and there are significant differences in that area > in Python2 vs Python3. E.g. ASCII vs Unicode. You'd likely > be opening a Pandora's box of corner cases and workarounds when > $STUPIDLY_FORMATTED_MAIL_MESSAGE_OF_THE_HOUR comes through. > > The effort would probably be better spent enhancing Mailman3, > since that's the future of the project anyway. > > Also, as someone that's been a Mailman site admin on installs > of various sizes for about the past 20 years, I'm sort of looking > forward to the promises of some of the little quirks of Mailman2 > getting some love. ;-) Hi ports@ This may be tangential to aboveon python versions, but: ports/mail/mailman supports Mailman2. Mailman2 & Mailman3 are very different. Even if it's possible to bend ports/mail/mailman to support Mailman3 Please do not do it; keep it clean for just Mailman2 (Else it would cause big run time problems for user admins (inc. me)). Any who will want Mailman3 should please clone ports/mail/mailman to ports/mail/mailman3 (not ports/mail/mailman2) & work there. Thanks Cheers -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux http://berklix.com/jhs/ http://www.berklix.org/corona/#masks 150 Euro fine or tie 2 handkerchiefs ? www.bbc.com/news/business-52304821 Brexit Dec. 2020 will hit UK more.
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